Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eddy. A frequent globetrotter, his acquaintance among world churchmen is wide and cordial; one of Amsterdam's highlights was the beardy kisses of welcome that Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens gave him in the robing room before the opening service. In 1928, Oxnam became president of DePauw University in Indiana; in 1936, at 44, he was elected bishop-then Methodism's youngest-and assigned to the Omaha area...
Teaching has been said to be a happy profession. Then why don't more people want to get into it? Last week Indiana University professors took a survey of 1,615 students, and soon found reasons for the lack of interest. Principal objections: 1) low pay; 2) cramped style-students wanted to be able to smoke, drink, date, dance, play cards, speak, vote, and think as they pleased, with or without the approval of a school board...
...With Indiana's two biggest dailies in his hands, ex-Police Reporter Pulliam, an energetic behind-the-scene GOPoliticker, became a major publisher (he owns the Phoenix Gazette and Arizona-Republic, papers in Muncie, Vincennes, Huntington and Lebanon, and two radio stations). In Indianapolis, his paper's circulation outnumbers Roy Howard's afternoon Times (circ. 91,000). Last week, Howard said that the merger gave his Times "added responsibilities [which] we are fully prepared to meet." One possibility: a Scripps-Howard Sunday Times to do battle with Pulliam's Sunday Star...
Died. James Eli ("Sunny Jim") Watson, 84, brass-lunged Old Guard Republican Senator from Indiana (1916-32) and Senate majority leader under Herbert Hoover; in Washington. A high-tariff isolationist, Watson fought the League of Nations, was a busy figure in the G.O.P.'s "smoke-filled room" convention of 1920, which nominated Warren Harding. After the Democratic landslide of 1932 he retired to private law practice and a vociferous back seat in his party. His favorite and most printable partisan aphorism: "Hell is the final home of the Democratic Party...
...that there was any dearth of trappings. The town swarmed with Cabinet officers, Administration czars and such exhausted sparks of former party glory as Indiana's Paul McNutt. There was bunting in the streets and bourbon on the table. Democratic headquarters passed out Victory Kits containing whistles, Truman buttons, cigarette lighters. A papier mache donkey-which shook its head and flashed its eyes-was set up on the marquee of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel to replace the Republican's sausagey balloon-rubber elephant...